Walk for Dignity raises funds for organization that has helped many get through trying times

8:30 PM,
Apr. 21, 2013

Iowa City Hospice officials open the path to the Walk for Dignity on Sunday at Willow Creek Park.

Written by

Luke Voelz
| Iowa City Press-Citizen

Gusting winds and intermittent rain were not enough to dissuade the hundreds of eastern Iowans who gathered alongside family and friends Sunday in Willow Creek Park.

The crowd had assembled for the Iowa City Hospice's 14th Walk for Dignity, a 1- or 3-mile walk and fundraiser. Many donned matching T-shirts and formed "teams" to walk in memory of a loved one who received hospice care before dying - Including Deb Devore, whose husband Mike Devore died of esophageal cancer November 2007.

"They helped the whole family deal with his illness being final," she said of the Iowa City Hospice workers who ...